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The 5S methodology(Programming Style)
What is the 5S methodology?
5S is the name of a workplace organization methodology that uses a list of five Japanese words which, transliterated and translated into English, start with the letter S. This list is a mnemonic for a methodology that is often incorrectly characterized as “standardized cleanup”, however it is much more than cleanup. 5S is a philosophy and a way of organizing and managing the workspace and work flow with the intent to improve efficiency by eliminating waste, improving flow and reducing process unevenness.
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5S_(methodology)
Shall we dive a little deeper?
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Google account of Twitter employee hacked
Ok, so this is a “retweet” of PCWorlds article aboout how the google account of a Twitter employee(s) was hacked a while ago. Since you can access nearly all of your google accounts with a single login this caused quite a chain of events. Not only was some of the individuals gmail accounts compromised but also google docs and The Business Insider has screenshots of some of the information that was compromised. Now in the article they mention that no twitter accounts were compromised due to this breach only some twitter employees personal accounts.
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Podcast Episode #6 – Way behind Schedule
Well we are extremely behind in recording these. I hope to get caught up at some point.
Here’s some of what we talked about…
- Topics
- Win 7 RC – is it worth getting hyped up for, windows mobile sweetness – gAlarm
- Agile/processes – New toys (Macbook Pro, Nokia BH-503), boxee
- OS X Java Vulnerability
- IT Conversations (Stackoverflow)
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Episode #0
This is the zeroth episode of Pointless Rants (of course it’s zero-indexed, it’s a technology podcast).
In this episode of Pointless Rants we did the following:
- Introduced ourselves – where we’re from, who we are.
- Tom talked about Linux distributions coordinating their distribution schedules so that people will take Linux more seriously.
- Tom introduced us to the amazing, searchable repository of http://koders.com
- Trevor confessed about how he cheats at Facebook games using GreaseMonkey (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748)
- Steve droned on about functional programming languages and got distracted by chat messages. (http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html) (http://www.lisp.org)
- We all discussed our different philosophies on laptop selection.
- Trevor introduced us to some of the new features of Windows 7 (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/)
- Tom informed us that it usually isn’t a good idea to pretend to be 10 years old.
- Tom and Steve griped about the many shortcomings of Hotmail (http://v3.izymail.com/Default.aspx)
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I’m Here Because Someone Lacks Discretion
Well, Tom has suckered me into joining the blog. I tried blogging once, but it’s hard to keep the momentum going when you’re posting about offshoot/hybrid philosophy. Fortunately, this time it’s up to Tom to keep the momentum going. I’ll probably be posting about operating systems, Python, and because I first learned to program on a Commodore 64, I’ll probably be looking for old (really old) computers still active in the wild. For instance, I know of at least one water treatment plant that monitors arsenic levels with an Atari.
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